Vol. 35, no. 3 (Winter 1991)
| Editor-in-Chief | Michael Gessel |
| Production Editor | Dan Smith, Lynne Smith |
| Bibliography Editor | Peter E. Hanff |
| Review Editor | Stephen J. Teller |
| Contributing Editors | John Fricke, Martin Gardner, Douglas G. Greene, Michael Patrick Hearn, Dick Martin, Dorothy Curtiss Maryott, Patrick Maund, Jim Vander Noot |
Front cover art by Leonid Vladimirsky (Волшебник Изумрудного города)
Back cover art by unknown artist (Oz peanut spread advertisement)
Winter 1991 Selected Contents
This is a guide to the articles and reviews from the issue that will most benefit researchers, scholars, and collectors. The printed issue includes additional content such as news, editorial letters, and other commentary-based departments.
Cyclic Mysteries: Parallel Tracks in the Detective Fiction of L. Frank Baum and Arthur Conan Doyle
Dr. Richard R. Rutter examines interesting parallels in the work of the two authors, especially comparing Baum’s “The Loveridge Burglary” to Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Priory School.”
The Evolution of Rachel Cosgrove Payes
David Maxine looks at how the fifth Royal Historian’s relationship to Oz, and Oz fans, changed over time, relating some of the stories behind the publication of The Hidden Valley of Oz and his own experiences with Cosgrove personally and at conventions.
A Checklist of Oz Character and Promotional Glasses
Bill Beem provides a detailed list, with variants, of different series of Oz glasses, including the 1939 Sealtest Cottage Cheese glasses, the 1989 Krystal/Coca-Cola glasses, and more, focusing in particular on multiple sets of Swift’s Oz Peanut Spread glasses from the 1950s–70s. (Another piece of Swift merchandising, a character mobile, would later be reproduced on both sides of Winter 1997‘s back cover.)
The Mating Day
An original short story by L. Frank Baum, reprinted from the September 1898 issue of Short Stories.
A Story’s Fortunate Destiny
Miron Petrovsky analyzes and compares the themes and authorial intent behind Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alexander Volkov’s The Wizard of the Emerald City. This article was originally an afterword printed in a 1987 edition of the latter book (in Russia), and therefore is weighted more heavily toward discussing its contents. It has been translated for The Baum Bugle by Peter L. Blystone.
Reviews
Dorothy Meets Alice or The Wizard of Wonderland by Joseph Robinette (play script; reviewer Stephen J. Teller)
On the Road to Oz by V. Glasgow Koste (play script; reviewer Stephen J. Teller)
The Dinamonster of Oz by Kenneth Gage Baum (fiction; reviewer Douglas G. Greene)
The Magical Mimics in Oz Oz Club edition (fiction; reviewer Jim Vander Noot)
The Magical Mimics in Oz Books of Wonder edition (fiction; reviewer Jim Vander Noot)
Sky Island narrated by Flo Gibson (audiobook; reviewer Greg Ehrbar)